Posted by giveawayboy on January 20, 2003 at 08:16:49:
scene 1
various outdoor scenes involving lots of driving in the streets, talking to kids who are skating and biking in the streets.
scene 2
we meet with the priest and members of this temple. i am thinking they are buddhists. the more we talk they do not seem buddhist. at one point this man in a plain blue outfit tells his wife that they should start the service, so he goes and gets a hat about 3 feet tall that looks like a giant ziggurat w curly cues on top, and he disappears into a dark room to come out in a splendid orange and yellow robe full of gold threadwork, w swirlings like cloud and fire, perhaps dragons are running up and down it. then i recognize it is a priest's vestments. soon i see someone w a cross come up and some deacons and altar boys. i realize taht i'm in a Taiwanese Catholic Church, so I go to mass. then during mass I looked outside the windows and realized that the whole East wall of the little church was just one huge piece of glass. You could see kids swimming outside the window in water about 4-5 feet deep. You could see waves pulling and pushing them around, their legs and butts flashing you from odd angles, once in awhile you would see the face or a spontaneous diver and overall you had the sensation that none of this playfulness was in any way detracting from the Mass. it was all part of the same celebration. indeed one of the children said to me whether by thought or by bubble I do not know, It's All One Thing. O.K. So, then I moved on....
scene 3
Now we are outside. I am riding in a car or truck w a friend. While we are riding I become more aware of being outside in the open air. Perhaps this is where the car or truck turned into a self-propelled shopping cart. We kept riding through the streets and talking to the kids out there. I commented on how beautiful the Taiwanese girls were, only in the dream they looked more like Philipinas. I'm not sure why. Some of the guys looked Taiwanese though. It took me awhile to distinguish Taiwanese from Thai in my mind after I woke up. Still I'm sure that Taiwan and Thailand are not the same places. O.K. So, there was this guy who was skateboarding or something and he looked at us like we were so strange to be floating by in this shopping cart. Oh, did I not mention it was floating? And he just looked at us like Yeah, you are strange, but I think that's O.K. So, we just kept flying, and I began to have all these revelations about life and about what it was in life that I needed to do, but no matter what the revelations were, I wasn't betraying them by my comments, which were somewhat like nonsense ejaculations. The guy who was with me in the shopping cart. I forget his name, but he seemed to be a master of everyday life. He seemed concerned at the way I would make these statements. It was like a lightbulb would go off in my head and I would talk about needing to simplify my life or something, or i'd talk about going on a great adventure, and then the shopping cart would crash to the ground, as if it were going to become engaged somehow. but then i'd rip up flowers or something and at one point the guy got out of the cart and tried to fix some plants i had uprooted quite accidentally. so i remember that i was trying to control my enthusiasm when at one point i must have waken up.